The mood of some bigshots was as gloomy as the weather in New York.
In just a few days, news of Senator Stern's suspected involvement in the human trafficking case, as well as of a certain FBI department found guilty of tax evasion, made the headlines.
After the department head turned green in the face from being questioned by IRS in a small dark room over certain "internal documents," Homeland Security arrived, and then his face turned gray.
Word of what the director had done spread online, and everybody learned that he was avoiding paying taxes because a lot of what he had was dirty money.
The director used his authority to privately embezzle illegal drugs seized by the FBI and resold them.
How to get this income past the IRS had always been a problem.
There were various ways to launder the money, but he couldn't do it all the time.
